Abstract
ABOUT a quarter of a century ago, the border-flowers in which our grandsires delighted were all but pushed out of existence by “bedding plants” and ribbon-borders of glaring hue. Nurserymen who had good stocks of the older favourites found them unsaleable, and discarded them accordingly. Then came a change, largely owing to the influence exerted by Mr. Robinson's publications. “Herbaceous” and “Alpine” plants were once more received into favour, and are probably more numerous and more extensively cultivated than ever they were. Kew, as usual, has been responsive to popular demands. In times well within the memory of the present generation, the plants we speak of were grown there, as in other botanic gardens, in ugly gridiron-like beds, an arrangement which might have been suitable for strictly botanical purposes, but which was as unattractive as possible.
Hand-list of Herbaceous Plants Cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew.
(Sold at the Royal Gardens, Kew.)
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Hand-list of Herbaceous Plants Cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. Nature 52, 388 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052388b0
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